Possible Design Trends For 2016

Being a Web Designer & Offshore HTML CSS developer by profession, I generally do lot of research to look for new ideas and design inspirations over the internet. So over these years of my experience and looking at the design trends which are recently picking up on the internet, I thought to summarize possible design trends that will take over in 2016.

Why is this important to you, even if you’re not a designer?

Well, if you spent lots of hours in searching for your innovative functionality, then why not to be a visually apart from all too?!

THE 5 MOST PROMINENT DESIGN TRENDS FOR 2016

Responsive Design

Material Design

Flat Design

Infographics

Smart Navigation

1. Responsive Design

Now a days responsive is not an optional choice for the website, it is the mandatory part of any website development. In Today’s world, mobiles are already the “first user interaction screen” so having a responsive website is very necessary. Moreover, when it comes to rankings, Google also crushes our site that doesn’t support Mobile friendly experience. (As per their Latest Quality Search Guidelines For Raters).

Usability is one of the important factors in all platforms. And since mobile is now the first screen, the user experience on mobile phones is key. A good responsive design would fit perfectly on mobile screens for its usability.

As a thumb rule of today’s world, if your users can’t enjoy your website on their daily commutes then the website needs to be revised. Responsive design will soon extend its capabilities to logos, banner hero images and any of the pieces of visual content you can think of.

In 2016, all graphics design and art work will adhere to the rules of responsive.

“No one size, but compatible with all.”

Responsive website is the flavor of web design to live in today’s competitive world. From rendering to representation it has a key role in it.

2. Material Design

Material Design came into market trends since 2013, but somehow was not widely adopted until 2015.

But I feel its a wrong assumption of taking material design features trending in 2015 in websites or applications. I am sure it will penetrate massively during 2016 and 2016 will be known as A Year of Material Design Dominance. Also Google has taken up the market in Design as Material Design Concepts in competition to iOS.

3. Flat Design

One Picture speaks 1000 words, we all know that.

In 2015, lot of big brands adapted flat design trends, the audiences became more and more adaptive to the fact that the less is better with visuals.

Additionally, one advantage is the weight of the image is less in flat design and which is beneficial to the page load. The latest version in Flat Design community is Flat Design 2.0. It includes 3 dimensional effect which makes it more usable.

4. Infographics

Is there a better way to convey stories or pieces of information than a clean Infographic ?

There is a reason behind Infographics trending in the Digital Marketing World of Social media, Content Marketing, SEO, etc. They are 3 times more eye catching than any other thing. So in 2016, the trend of boring Infographics is going to fade away, its the time of the amalgamation of Infographic storytelling capabilities with a deep sigh of Data Visualizations.

5. Smart Navigation

Hidden menus that appear out will soon be a norm. Again, the key concept here is that users shouldn’t be distracted from what’s really important at any given time. Even if it is not visible, it would be recognized by experience that there is a menu on website. Clever Menus would be fully responsive to multidimensional scrolling.

So these were the top 5 most possible design trends that will take over in 2016. So its time now, when you design a website for yourself or your business or for your customer then take above trends in consideration to really stand out in competition.